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in cement
Idioms and Phrases
Firmly settled or determined; unalterable. For example, Their policy on taxes was set in cement despite opposition . For a synonym, see cast in stone .Example Sentences
They discuss how they are able to elude security while smuggling in cement blocks.
On Feb. 3, the actor had a grander and more permanent monument as evidence of his accomplishment: his handprints immortalized in cement at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre.
Quan can be forgiven for his repeated disbelief — that he was offered the lead role, that he had won an Oscar, that he would be honored in cement.
The 66-year-old Dangote, who is listed by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as the second wealthiest person in Africa, made his fortune in cement and sugar.
A man in South Korea has confessed to murdering his girlfriend and hiding her body in cement - 16 years after she was reported as missing.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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